Ashley Graham: It's "Curvasexalicious," Not Plus Size

Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Ashley Graham has a better label for women the fashion industry calls "plus size," aka anyone who wears a size 8 or higher, according to Graham. "I like to call it, like, curvasexalicious," she told Ellen. Sizing has gotten frightening, she continued: "There's a double 0 now. It's a little scary on both spectrums of weight. I'm not a promoter of anorexia. I'm not a promoter of obesity. I think we have to promote women to be healthy at every size as long as they're getting off the couch and moving their body."

Finding her own confidence growing up as a model was hard: "Words have power, and when someone's telling you, 'You're too pretty, you're too ugly, you're too fat, you're too skinny' constantly—and I've been doing this for 16 years now—you start to believe it," Ashley said candidly. "And you start to think that every word that someone says, that it's true. The moment that I realized, You know what? I don't have to fit into a certain standard, I don't have to be a certain kind of woman, I have to be my own woman, the one my mother created me to be, and that's when my confidence came out." Indeed:

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